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<title><![CDATA[Zeina Karam - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30542.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Zeina Karam]]></description><category domain="30542">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[IS Leader Appears in Video for First Time in 5 Years]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT (AP) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group claimed to appear for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s propaganda arm on Monday, acknowledging defeat in the group'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s last stronghold in Syria but vowing a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'long...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Official Says Troop Withdrawal From Syria Has Started]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/11/us_official_says_troop_withdrawal_from_syria_has_started_139151.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD (AP) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' After days of back and forth over U.S. President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to pullout American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday the process of withdrawal has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements.
Col. Sean Ryan,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Analysis: Iran Role in Syria Key Item at Trump-Putin Summit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/15/analysis_iran_role_in_syria_key_item_at_trump-putin_summit_137529.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT (AP) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' When President Donald Trump meets Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday, the Syrian conflict will be one of the most immediately pressing issues on a wide-ranging and colorful agenda.
As fighting wanes after seven years of war, the U.S. has made curtailing Iran's influence...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Blamed for Missile Strike in Syria; 14 Reported Dead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/09/israel_blamed_for_missile_strike_in_syria_14_reported_dead_136747.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT (AP) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a pre-dawn missile attack Monday on a major air base in central Syria, saying Israeli fighter jets launched the missiles from Lebanon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s air space. A war-monitoring group said the airstrikes killed 14 people,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Conflicts Loom After Islamic State Defeat in Raqqa]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/19/more_conflicts_loom_after_islamic_state_defeat_in_raqqa_135306.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT (AP) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of the Islamic State group in its self-declared capital of Raqqa, but the future is looking even more tangled, and potentially as violent.
The downfall of a common enemy could open up cracks in temporary alliances...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despite Bombing, Islamic State Is No Weaker Than a Year Ago]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/01/despite_bombing_islamic_state_is_no_weaker_than_a_year_ago_127626.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the U.S.-led bombing campaign began a year ago, American intelligence agencies have concluded.
U.S. military commanders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under Islamic State, Children Trained to Behead at an Early Age]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/21/under_islamic_state_children_trained_to_behead_at_an_early_age_127476.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SANLIURFA, Turkey (AP) -- The children each received a doll and a sword. Then they were lined up, more than 120 of them, and given their next lesson by their Islamic State group instructors: Behead the doll.
A 14-year-old who was among the line of abducted boys from Iraq's Yazidi...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Islamic State Erasing History, Culture in Syria, Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/06/islamic_state_erasing_history_culture_in_syria_iraq_125853.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Zeina Karam</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT (AP) -- The Islamic State group's destruction of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is part of a systematic campaign to destroy archaeological sites it says promote apostasy.
Some of the world's most precious cultural treasures, including ancient sites in the cradle of...]]></description>
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